kernel dependency?

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Dec 23 05:54:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Jim wrote:

> i want to remove the latst kernel installed,  cause when i di updates
> things got a bit out of hand.   (something to do with a second HD)
> so i opened the terminal and did this...
> 
> [jim at My_World ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root at My_World ~]# rpm -q kernel
> kernel-2.6.9-1.667
> kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> [root at My_World ~]# rpm -e kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         kernel = 2.6.6-1.435 is needed by (installed)
> kernel-ntfs-2.6.6-1.435.i6 86
> [root at My_World ~]#
> 
> why would such a old kernel still be installed? 

Wierd... what do you get for the following?

rpm -qa kernel\*
rpm -q --requires kernel-ntfs\*
yum remove kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3

Satish




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